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Conceived to commemorate the victims of South Korea's participation in the Vietnam War, the statue of the Vietnam Pieta invites us to question who shapes the memory of this neglected facet of the conflict. The present article analyzes the various actors involved in this contentious process in and across both countries, starting with the South Korean activists behind the statue's making and the movement for recognizing the crimes committed by their army. Examining these activists' advocacy work since the late 1990s, the article argues that they are triply situated in the fight over remembering South Korea's intervention in Vietnam. Truth advocates first appear in a position of privilege and leadership vis-à-vis Vietnamese victims of South Korean military wrongdoings, which raises the issue of the material and political asymmetries at stake in the construction of memory. Simultaneously, the same advocates occupy a position of marginality vis-à-vis the dominant public discourse held on the war by Hanoi and Seoul, whose common interest lies in deepening their mutually beneficial but unequal economic partnership. Thirdly, the memory of the conflict pits truth activists against another group within their own civil society: veterans' organizations aggressively denying all war crimes accusations. Ultimately, remembering the war is not the object of a bilateral dispute between the South Korean and Vietnamese states, but rather a site of domestic tensions within South Korea itself.

In this article, the author examines the concept of gravity through its use in the law of international criminal jurisdictions. Inherent to international crimes, gravity appears at first sight as the foundation of international criminal law and as a means to justify the creation of international criminal jurisdictions. However, the concept lacks a legal definition. Using a positivist and prospective approach, the article seeks to research the different uses of gravity both in the texts of international criminal jurisdictions and in their case law in order to clarify its definition and scope of application. Revealing a differentiated use, the author attempts to demonstrate that gravity serves both the creation of rules to fight against impunity, and rules protecting defendants in proceedings. In the same way, when it is understood as a factor in the jurisdiction of international criminal courts, its assessment by judges and prosecutors sometimes allows for the extension, sometimes the limitation of the said jurisdiction, notably through a confused and subjective use of the factor. Its assessment prior to the trial reveals its inherent subjectivity, which is nevertheless compensated when judges determine sentences. The study of the case law makes it possible to identify guidelines, favouring a better predictability of gravity in international criminal law.

This article examines pacifism in music, specifically involving the premiere of John Foulds' oratorio A World Requiem. Britain's audience in the interwar years, at least in the high-culture spheres, was not very receptive to the construction of a pacifist and least a cosmopolitan discourse. As a result, Foulds' work was lost to history for more than three-quarters of a century, only to be revived in 2007 during Armistice celebrations. To explain the reappraisal of Foulds' oratorio, this article analyzes musical reviews in the press during Foulds' lifetime, but also those from the time of the oratorio's revival. These reviews show how Foulds' work came to be reevaluated and which perspectives came to be dominant. Most remarkably, this includes the fact that a lasting peace was already a need for certain artists during the interwar period, expressed musically by commemorating fallen soldiers.

This article examines the role played by social media platforms (Twitter in particular) in the fabrication and dissemination of a discourse opposing health measures in the province of Quebec during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Based on a materialist and actor-network theory approach, it analyzes the narratives opposing the measures that circulated in the Quebec Twittersphere during the first two weeks of the implementation of the restrictive measures imposed by the federal and provincial authorities. In particular, we show that the fabrication and dissemination of a discourse opposed to these measures leads to an ideological syncretism with blurred contours that contributes to the trivialization of ideas traditionally associated with conspiracism that target Canadian scientific and political elites. The study, both of the discourse and of the device that promotes it, shows how this device allows individuals on the fringe of the public sphere to transform themselves into popular influencers and moral techno-entrepreneurs who become the figureheads of a movement opposed to the sanitary measures.

Keywords: Twitter, acteur-réseau, Canada, Québec, conspiration, populisme, techno-entrepreneurs, Twitter, actor-network theory, Canada, Quebec, conspiracy, populism, tech entrepreneurs, Twitter, actor-red, teoría, Canadá, Quebec, conspiración, populismo, tecno-emprendedores

As a result of internationalisation policies, Singapore is now one of the world's most selective centres of higher education. How did these policies take hold in Singapore? Did they develop according to a Western hegemonic model? Has competition between public and private institutions intensified? Have the student elites been renewed? To answer these questions, the article analyses the impact of internationalisation dynamics on the higher education system in Singapore over the past fifty years. The intensification of the international dimension in Singapore reflects a reconfiguration of the structuring of its education and the production of its elites. On the basis of a field survey combining analysis of interviews with institutional actors, political discourse and documentary sources, the article shows that Singaporean public universities have become elite training programmes ranked among the best in Asia, welcoming primarily the most academically gifted national students, whose flows have been increasing since 2010 to the detriment of international students. On the other hand, the lucrative private system of off-shore institutions in Singapore meets high quality requirements and enables the recruitment of a larger number of mobile students. The result is a dichotomy between a public elite trained in the more academically selective national universities and a private elite embodied in the more economically selective private institutions. The survey shows that Singaporean higher education has achieved regional dominance through decisions based on values inspired by both the technologically developed Western world and the rapidly growing Eastern world.

Keywords: internationalisation, enseignement supérieur, Singapour, mobilité étudiante, fabrication des élites, internationalization, higher education, Singapore, student mobility, making of élites

The aim of this study is to provide new empirical evidence of the impact of innovation activities on export behaviors in firms in the Canadian wine industry. Based on a survey of 151 wineries, the research method combines two levels of analysis: first, a descriptive analysis testing different variables related to internal innovation activities, the degree of openness of the firm, innovation outcomes and export activities. Second, logit and ordinal regression models are estimated.

Keywords: innovation, exportation, industrie du vin, Canada, innovation, export, wine industry, Canada, innovación, exportación, industria del vino, Canadá

The University of the Arts of Ecuador is an educational project created in 2013 as part of a reform of the higher education system, which was part of a government policy aimed at transforming the country's development structures. This article reviews the gestation process of this public educational institution and analyses its impact in different dimensions : i) the relationship of the university with the territory it inhabits, ii) its original educational model in the arts and its significance in the Ecuadorian higher education system, iii) the dialogue of the results of the university's creative production with the local artistic field.

Keywords: Université des Arts, Arts, Savoirs, Équateur, Éducation en arts, University of the Arts, Arts, Knowledge, Ecuador, Higher education in arts, Universidad de las Artes, Artes, Sabores, Ecuador, Educación en arte